Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| Programming Styles in Scala |
| Scala and Other Languages |
| Who Is This Book For? |
| What’s in This Book? |
| Scala Version Used in This Book |
| Online Resources |
| 1. | Exploring Scala |
| Scala Features |
| More with Less |
| Functional Programming |
| 2. | Taking Scala for a Ride |
| Using the REPL |
| Scala on the Command Line |
| Running Scala Code as a Stand-alone Script |
| Compiling Scala |
| 3. | From Java to Scala |
| Scala as Concise Java |
| Scala Classes for Java Primitives |
| Tuples and Multiple Assignments |
| Flexible Parameters and Arguments |
| Implicit Parameters |
| Strings and Multiline Raw Strings |
| String Interpolation |
| Sensible Defaults |
| Operator Overloading |
| Scala Surprises for the Java Eyes |
| Default Access Modifier |
| 4. | Working with Objects |
| Creating and Using Classes |
| Following the JavaBean Convention |
| Type Aliasing |
| Extending a Class |
| Parameterized Types |
| Singletons and Companions |
| Creating Enumerations |
| Package Objects |
| 5. | Making Use of Types |
| Type Inference |
| Fundamental Types |
| Return Type Inference |
| Variance of Parameterized Type |
| Implicit Type Conversions |
| Value Classes |
| Using Implicit Conversions |
| 6. | Function Values and Closures |
| Limitations of Normal Functions |
| Extensibility with Higher-Order Functions |
| Function Values with Multiple Parameters |
| Currying |
| Positional Notation for Parameters |
| Parameter Routing |
| Reusing Function Values |
| Partially Applied Functions |
| Closures |
| Execute Around Method Pattern |
| 7. | Traits |
| Understanding Traits |
| Selective Mixins |
| Decorating with Traits |
| Method Late Binding in Traits |
| 8. | Collections |
| Common Scala Collections |
| Using a Set |
| Associative Maps |
| Immutable Lists |
| Method Name Convention |
| The for Expression |
| 9. | Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions |
| Comprehensive Matching |
| Pattern Variables and Constants in case Expressions |
| Matching Using case Classes |
| Extractors and Regular Expressions |
| The Omnipresent Underscore Character |
| 10. | Handling Exceptions |
| Exceptions in Scala |
| Mind the Catch Order |
| 11. | Programming Recursions |
| A Simple Recursion |
| Tail Call Optimization (TCO) |
| Trampoline Calls |
| 12. | Lazy Evaluations and Parallel Collections |
| Let’s Get Lazy |
| Making Strict Collections Lazy |
| The Ultimately Lazy Streams |
| Parallel Collections |
| 13. | Programming with Actors |
| A Sequential Time-Consuming Problem |
| The Treacherous Paths to Concurrency |
| Creating Actors |
| Actors and Threads |
| Isolated Mutability |
| Concurrency with Actors |
| Usage Recommendations |
| 14. | Intermixing with Java |
| Using Scala Classes from Scala |
| Using Java Classes from Scala |
| Using Scala Methods from Java |
| Using Traits from Java |
| Using Singletons and Companion Objects from Java |
| Extending Classes |
| 15. | Creating an Application with Scala |
| Getting Users’ Input |
| Reading and Writing Files |
| XML as a First-Class Citizen |
| Reading and Writing XML |
| Getting Stock Prices from the Web |
| Making the Net Asset Application Concurrent |
| 16. | Unit Testing |
| Using JUnit |
| Using ScalaTest |
| Using Mockito |
| A1. | Installing Scala |
| Downloading |
| Installing |
| A2. | Web Resources |
| Bibliography |
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